July 3, 2025

Streets of Lisboa
of São Martinho do Porto
of Óbidos
of Nazaré

overlay anthropic order
onto old geology, stone upon stone
settled, as in settlement

hands and tools smooth stucco
paint sunlight and shadow
yellow, pink, blue

a million black and white blocks
sand mortared and solid along
the paths and tracks of intention

we tread, slide
always to the sea
to rock and sand

to crash and wave
to setting sun and
the Portuguese Atlantis